Install Adobe Acrobat XI with wine

Solution 1:

I'm the person who wrote the first test results of Adobe Acrobat XI Pro on Wine App database.

You can't install the program using current, official Wine release. If you want install it with - and only with - Wine, you will need a MSI "hack patch" which bypasses some custom MSI action calls required basically by any modern Adobe installer.

The patch for Wine is provided here

The downside is that, at the moment, the patch is rejected from official Wine mainstream releases. However, you can apply it to Wine source code and compile Wine by yourself. After you've compiled Wine and installed it into your system, you should be able to install Adobe Acrobat XI Pro without issues. The patch works also for other Adobe software, such as

• Adobe Audition (CS5.5 & CS6)
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

(Wine 1.7.36 + patch applied)

I've compared/analyzed the first installation method I described on Wine AppDB ("Copy all files from Windows OS"), and the "MSI hack patch" method. Both of them work: all needed Acrobat files are installed, whichever method you decide to use.

Winetricks requirements for the patch method are as follows:

winetricks msxml3 msxml6 wininet ie8 vcrun6 atmlib

On winecfg, set your Windows version to "Windows 7", before running the Acrobat Installer.

If you have troubles with printing in Acrobat XI Pro, set riched20 override to "builtin" instead of "native" on winecfg.

I hope this information helps you.

Solution 2:

Install the atmlib library by running the following in the terminal:

sudo winetricks atmlib

As for copying the folder over, this refers to a bug in Acrobat's installer which prevents it from copying the folders into the relevant directory. The alternative is to copy the folders from a windows computer that already has Acrobat installed on it. However, it sounds like you managed to install Acrobat.